I read the entirety of that and while I agree on many points, I find other points reductive and simplistic takes on what is actually a complicated root issue - capitalism and it driving of centralisation, profiteering and, of course, enshittification (which people have become more aware of in recent years and which is an ongoing and worsening issue just by itself).
Drip looks great! I've been using Ovuview which says it keeps your data private, but being proprietary I can't easily know for sure. I love Ovuview for its depth of tracking (Symptothermal plus any custom symptoms you want) and it's accurate predictions.
But will be really nice if Drip works out well (gonna try it for a while first before ditching Ovuview) so I can finally use something FOSS.
Yeah, I had heard an ex Windows dev say the whole kernel was spaghetti code. I'm glad I don't have next to anything to do with Windows anymore. I pity my spouse being an IT tech.
ODroids are massively underrated. The first Pi we bought is dead. The second one is now so underpowered for what we want that it's been turned into retro arcade machine. It still finds ways to cause problems too. Whereas our first ODroid is still going strong after many years of faithful service. We added an ODroid toaster to the mix a couple of years ago that's also given us zero issues and works wonderfully.
So I just wrote out a whole big long thing about how I tested multiple searches and Kagi served up the best results out of them all. But apparently my comment didn't stick :/
Anyway, I would love to use Kagi but it would be incredibly expensive for us. The family plan wouldn't work because I use more than 2,000 searches in a month and with the exchange rate, the unlimited plan comes out at $40, plus whatever plan my spouse used or another $30 if the rest of the fam wanted to use it.
What I would love to see is if ISPs picked up Kagi. They make a deal for discounted plans from Kagi which they then offer to customers as an addon to their internet plan. Kagi gets more money coming in and regularly and people get to use Kagi at an affordable rate.
At the moment, Kagi is just another service providing privacy and usefulness only to those who can afford it. The poor (and ignorant) still have to content to be the product and give up privacy :(
Thank you for this explanation! I was so confused by people saying Firefox causes problems because my experience and AFAIK, Firefox adheres to standards the most. I always had the easiest time with Firefox and always built sites using Firefox then tricks to make other browsers work the same. Maybe it's because as a designer/dev I have always been more particular about sticking to standards.
iOS Safari is the new internet explorer.
sigh And here I thought after how many decades of standards, we would be past this shit by now. insert rant about monopolising big corps forcing their moneygrubbing crap on people
DDG also curates/censors/biases the results though.
And even if the company thinks it's for a good reason, they've set themselves a precedent and now we don't know what else they could be curating, censoring or biasing in their search results.
I just recently tried a few different ones because I want to get away from Brave Search. But they either had poor search results or some firm of censoring/altering search results. So I would also love to know if there's some search engine or there that can produce good results without bias i.e. actually just give me the relevant results I am searching for.
I'm an ex website designer/dev and only tinker with websites these days. But I was doing this shit back in the days when HTML 4.01 was new. Anyways it was usual to use a bunch of tricks to get multiple different browsers (including different versions) to render the same or similar enough. I had to have a bunch of different browsers installed to test them all on because emulation wasn't a thing yet either.
I think the last serious development I did was a few years ago but as browsers have become better at adhering to standards and rendering more consistently, I haven't had the need to use anywhere near the amount of tricks and hacks as I used to. I've personally had little issue with browser compatibility.
Has something happened in the last few years to change that?
I was going to recommend Knock as an alternative to Adobe Digital Editions that can be used from a command line in Linux but I just discovered it's gone as well 😢
As someone who has chronic health issues nd increasingly severe Memory Impairment (possibly early onset Alzheimers), I would give almost anything for the perfect health. Hell, I would be over the moon just for average health.
I can't even begin to explain how much it hurts to be surrounded by people who could choose to be healthy but are just apathetic, uncaring, lazy or ignorant of how much of a blessing it is to be able to exercise, get fit, run, swim or even jut walk round without feeling utterly exhausted after or to remember the things they love and enjoy.
After how many decades of printers being in existence, they are STILL the worst peripheral. Did the inventor of the desktop printer sell their soul to the devil or something because I swear to gods every single one of them is possessed by troll demons.
I used to have issues with CUPS and wireless printers. Then we replaced our home printer with the business flavour (next to no difference between them but for a couple of extra features including wireless).... This one gives us trouble when printing via LAN but is completely plug and play via wireless 😬😈🤦🏻♀️🙄
I don't entirely get this idea that Windows is easier to troubleshoot problems. I get crashes not often but regularly on Windows. It's usually some obscure error code that I can't find any info on (which is why I have this wallpaper as my dual booted Windows desktop wallpaper). Trying to get support for many errors, not even just the obscure ones, usually results in being told to reinstall software or the entire OS. Nevermind having to reinstall Windows regularly anyway because it would inevitably start slowing down over time, no matter how much I regularly ran cleaning software and whatever else.
Whereas my longest Linux install (Arch) was 6 years running. I was able to easily enough troubleshoot problems either on my own or with the help of a truly great nix community. If it was a bug no one else had reported yet, I reported it and it got fixed. Usually I could just roll back a package version until that time or I could work around it. Meanwhile crashes and hard locks are so few and far between.
I would completely ditch Windows and not dual boot if more people got away from Adobe products and I didn't have to use them to work on projects with others.
Redhat was my first Linux experience more than two decades ago now. I had to buy it from a bricks and mortar store since the internet was still in it's infancy (at least in my country). It cost $110 back in the day (about $170 nowadays) and came with a thick arse ye olde phone book style manual 😅 Sadly, there just wasn't the compatibility with Windows software there that I needed for interacting with Windows users so it didn't last long. Picked up Linux again about 10 years ago (distro hopping till I settled on Arch) and haven't looked back. It's amazing to see how far Linux has come just in the last few years, especially with gaming.
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